What I learned from contributing to open source

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@hackerkid Zulip GitHub Campus Experts

@hackerkid Phase #1

@hackerkid #Try To Commit Every Day

@hackerkid My GitHub In 2014

@hackerkid My GitHub In 2015

@hackerkid Put all your code On GitHub

@hackerkid Put all your code on github • Topcoder/Codeforces problems
you solved • Semester projects • Personal projects • List of books you read • dotfiles • research paper

@hackerkid Work On A Side Project

@hackerkid Phase 2

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@hackerkid If you are thinking about contributing, you are good
enough. Challenge yourself and fight your impostor syndrome

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@hackerkid Most projects have specific label for issues that are
suited for beginners. Zulip has bit-size issues.

@hackerkid • http://up-for-grabs.net • http://issuehub.io • http://www.firsttimersonly.com • http://yourfirstpr.github.io •
https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners • http://docsdoctor.org • http://PullRequestRoulette.com • http://24pullrequests.com Issues to Get Started for Beginners

@hackerkid Setting Up The Development Environment Is The Hard Part
Most of The Time

@hackerkid • Choose An Issue and Spend One or Two
Day on It. • Don’t give up. • Life is much simpler after you solve complete first issue.

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@hackerkid One does not try to read the entire code
base

@hackerkid The number of lines in Zulip is 4,85,395

@hackerkid grep -rnw “key word” .

@hackerkid Don’t know what a line of code does? >
git log -S “line of code”

@hackerkid Learn from Git History of a File

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@hackerkid Brandon Keepers, GitHub

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@hackerkid Open Source is the ultimate referral Chris Dibona, Google

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@hackerkid So, which project are you going to contribute to?

@hackerkid Special Thanks To @bkeepers and @joenash GitHub

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What I learned from contributing to open source

What I learned from contributing to open source

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